City of Quartz
excavating the future in los angeles
$48.23
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2018
Summary
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786635891 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786635895 |
| Author: | Mike Davis |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 545g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 32mm |
| Series: | The Essential Mike Davis |
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Critics Review
Absolutely fascinating – William GibsonFew books shed as much light on their subjects as this opinionated and original excavation of Los Angeles from the mythical debris of its past and future. * San Francisco Examiner *A history as fascinating as it is instructive. – Peter Ackroyd * Times *
About The Author
Mike Davis
Mike Davis was a meat cutter and truck driver, as well as an activist for Students for a Democratic Society before starting his academic career. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. His many books on history and the city, including the bestselling City of Quartz, have been critically acclaimed across the world.
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